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Lockheed Martin® C-141b Starlifter, 63rd MAW 0177 Norton AFB, 18″ Mahogany Scale Model

$319.00

Pilot and Crew!  Enjoy this Lockheed Martin C-141 Starlifter, 63rd MAW 0177 Norton AFB. You’ll love the craftsmanship done by hand and the authenticity.

  • 18 inch
  • Made from Mahogany
  • US Naval Aviator Owned Business
  • Officially Licensed by Lockheed Martin

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63rd MAW 0177 Norton AFB C-141A Model,Mahogany Scale Model

Pilot and Crew!  Enjoy this Lockheed Martin C-141 Starlifter, 63rd MAW 0177 Norton AFB. You’ll love the craftsmanship done by hand and the authenticity.

  • 18 inch
  • Made from Mahogany
  • US Naval Aviator Owned Business
  • Officially Licensed by Lockheed Martin

LOCKHEED MARTIN, associated emblems and logos, and body designs of vehicles are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Lockheed Martin Corporation in the USA and/or other jurisdictions, used under license by Squadron Nostalgia LLC.

Recognizing that its missions focused on strategic airlift, the wing dropped the “troop carrier” designation and became the 63d Military Airlift Wing in January 1966.[1]

Plans to move the wing to Norton Air Force Base, California and equip it with Lockheed C-141 Starlifters were set in motion on 1 July 1966, when Military Airlift Command organized the Military Airlift Wing, Provisional, 63d. For the next nine months, the provisional wing expanded as a full C-141 wing. On 1 April 1967, the wing moved to Norton without personnel or equipment and assumed the mission, personnel and Starlifters of the provisional unit, which was discontinued.[14]

The wing flew airlift missions to the Far East and Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War between 1967 and 1973.[1]

By 1968 regular air force military airlift squadrons were operating the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, while the reserves still flew the obsolete C-124. As the Globemaster was retired, the Air Force Reserve formed associate units with the C-141. In this program reserve units flew and maintained aircraft owned by an associated regular unit.[15] In March 1968, the 944th Military Airlift Group moved to Norton from March Air Force Base without personnel or equipment and was attached to the wing, flying the regular unit’s Starlifters. In July 1973, the associate program was expanded and the 445th Military Airlift Wing replaced the 944th as the reserve associate unit at Norton.[1] The 445th remained an associate of the 63d until 1993, when it was assigned its own aircraft.

These missions included the evacuation of former American prisoners of war from North Vietnam during Operation Homecoming in early 1973. It also supported the airlift of Vietnamese refugees to the United States in Operation New Life during 1975. From 1976 until it inactivated in 1994, the wing commanded airlift and supporting units to airlift troops, cargo, equipment, passengers, mail and aeromedical evacuation/airlift to and from areas around the world.[1]

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